Christina Baldwin Quotes

Journal writing is a voyage to the interior.

~ Christina Baldwin

When story and behavior are consistent, we relax; when story and behavior are inconsistent, we get tense. We have a deep psychological need for our stories and behaviors to be consistent. We need to be able to trust the story, because it's the lens through which we see reality. We will go to great lengths in the attempt to make a story that explains an action and supports or restores consistency. If we cannot make story and action fit, we either have to make a new story or change the action. ... [But] The drive for consistency and the ability to redefine abhorrent action so it fits the story are very complex issues. We have a huge ability to continue believing stories we are told are true in order to stay comfortable with actions we don't want to change, or don't feel capable of changing.

~ Christina Baldwin

The ordinary stories of our ordinary lives have extraordinary gifts coded within them. . .

~ Christina Baldwin

We make our lives bigger or smaller, more expansive or more limited, according to the interpretation of life that is our story.

~ Christina Baldwin

When you're stuck in a spiral to change all aspects of the spin you need only to change one thing.

~ Christina Baldwin

Change is the constant the signal for rebirth the egg of the phoenix.

~ Christina Baldwin

Spiritual love is a position of standing with one hand extended into the universe and one hand extended into the world letting ourselves be a conduit for passing energy.

~ Christina Baldwin

With compassion we see benevolently our own human condition and the condition of our fellow beings. We drop prejudice. We withhold judgment.

~ Christina Baldwin